Leary Skenzich, Dr. Anne Marie, PhD At 58 Anne slipped away from this life in the arms of her mother and brothers, Tim and Bryan. Diagnosed about 10 years ago with Lewy Body Dementia, she lived a full life despite diminishing mobility. She graduated from Southwest High School, spent a year at Creighton University in Omaha, but came home to Minnesota and never left the area. She graduated from the University of Minnesota and spent the early years of her marriage to Gary close to Lake Harriet as a drug counselor. They met at the Renaissance Festival and discovered her talents for acting could combine with her love of horses. In her 40s when a neurologist told her to take it easy in her last years, she went back to school, finished her MBA, and began work on a PhD in public health. While in school she received several Social Security administration grants, and much encouragement from the faculty to continue research in pain management. About this time she opened her own business as a financial investigator and in school she developed a formula to measure chronic pain objectively. The research continues. As her mobility declined, she increased her technology skills. Her contributions to the world grew as she began reading the daily gospel readings to English speakers internationally, online. She had thousands of followers around the world. For her dissertation in meteorology, she wrote a new program for weather forecasting. This is used by many radio and TV broadcasters. She donated it to the university. Her last customers, were school districts that needed accurate weather forecasts for bus safety in winter and outdoor sports in the summer. Her cats never liked thunderstorms, and neither do baseball players. Anne is preceded in death by her grandparents, her favorite aunts and her father. She is survived by her Mother, Mary her brothers, their children, aunts and uncles and many cousins, nieces and nephews. We will miss her jokes and stories especially when she had medical tests and treatment. We will miss her joy in baseball. She attended every home game in the dome until the new stadium opened. We will miss her at the state fair, the Guthrie and orchestra concerts with her mother. While bedridden at the end, she even watched the Vikes. May she find the peace in heaven and freedom from pain she suffered while among us. A celebration of life will be at the Basilica of St. Mary, Minneapolis, Wednesday February 1, visitation at 9:30 and Memorial Mass at 10:30. She asked for memorials to go to an animal shelter of your choice.